Annual Conference of the Working Group
"Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics"

Conference of the NGFN Project
"Good Practice in DNA Microarray Analysis"

2007 November 22-23 in Munich

Organizing Committee: Frank Bretz, Ulrich Mansmann, Jörg Rahnenführer, Juliane Schäfer, Achim Tresch

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The conference is free of charge and open for registration.
There is a limited number of slots for contributed talks (20 minutes). There will be a poster session on Friday, you are invited to bring posters with you. To register or to apply for a contributed talk, please send a short note to Achim Tresch.

Preliminary Course schedule
 Thursday, Nov 22 - Network Analysis, Systems Biology  
Time
Title
Speaker  
13.00-

Reconstructing Gene Regulatory Networks
with Bayesian Networks by Combining Expression Data
with Multiple Sources of Prior Knowledge. Abstract.

Dirk Husmeier (confirmed)
Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland
Edinburgh, Scotland
 

Nested Effects Models

Rainer Spang (confirmed)
Institute of Functional Genomics
University of Regensburg
Regensburg, Germany

 
Coffee Break
   
tba
Richard Bourgon (confirmed)
European Bioinformatics Institute
European Molecular Biology Lab, Hinxton
Cambridge, United Kingdom
 
-18.00
Stucture learning with prior information
Sach Mukherjee
Dept of Statistics & Warwick Complexity Complex
University of Warwick
Coventry
, United Kingdom
 
Friday, Nov 23 - Survival Analysis, Quality Control
 
Time
Title
Speaker  
09.00-
tba
Hongzhe Li (confirmed)
Department of Biostistics and Epidemiology
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Philadelphia, USA
 
tba
Thomas Gerds (confirmed)
Department of Biostatistics
Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
 
tba
Hans van Houwelingen (confirmed)
Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
 
12.00-14.00
Lunch Break, Poster Session
     
tba
Jelle Goeman (confirmed)
Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
 
  tba

Timothy Davison (confirmed)
Asuragen,
Austin, Texas, USA

 
  tba

Frank Staedtler (confirmed)
Novartis,
Basel, Switzerland

 
-16.00
tba
Axel Benner(confirmed)
Central Unit Biostatistics
German Cancer Research Center
Heidelberg, Germany
 

How to find us

We meet at the Klinikum Großhadern, Hörsaaltrakt, Floor K O2, Seminarroom 5, Marchioninistraße 15, 81377 München.
Großhadern lies in the south-west of Munich (map). For navigating, you might also find the roadmap and the following directions helpful:
• If you arrive in Munich by plane, take the S-bahn S8 ("Airport line") to Marienplatz.
• If you arrive by train, take any S-bahn or U-bahn to Marienplatz.
• From Marienplatz take U6 to final stop Klinikum Großhadern.
• Leaving the platform, you stand inside a glass pyramid (marked in red in the left figure below).

The red pyramid is the Ubahn-station at which you arrive using U6. The building marked in green is your destination.   This is the inside of the clinical center. The seminarrooms are on the upper right next to the letters "KL".

Accomodation

You will need to make your own accommodation arrangements. We recommend rooms at the Hotel Neumayr, which lies in Großhadern close to the clinical center. If you want to stay closer to the center of Munich, we recommend hotels in Schwabing, which is 15min by U-bahn from Großhadern. Have a look at Hotel Hauser, Hotel Lettl, or Renner Hotel Savoy.

Further information

Please contact Achim Tresch.